Bowling to nissanka who completed the second hundred of his test career. Were england weary in this test match, at time they looked it. Were they complacent, they will definitely deny that. There always be definite ups than downs with their style of test match cricket, maybe this will be a sobering defeat for them as they try to develop a ruthless streak that was definitely missing in this test match. In test match cricket in places like sri lanka, well maybe this victory in the broader scheme of things is just what cricket needs. Well, england had the victory in their sights, in what was a topsy turvy match with stand in captain ollie pope s heroics from the first innings. He knows that his england side let this one slip through. We played some really good cricket through the summer but could not put it together over the four days here after two days we were in a good position and did not capitalise and unfortunately with the bat we were not good enough yesterday and should have had
Were england weary in this test match, at times they looked it. Were they complacent, they will definitely deny that. There will always be ups and downs with their style of test match cricket, maybe this will be a sobering defeat for them as they try to develop a ruthless streak that was definitely missing in this test match. In test match cricket in places like sri lanka, well maybe this victory in the broader scheme of things is just what cricket needs. Well, england had the victory in their sights, in what was a topsy turvy match with stand in captain ollie pope s heroics from the first innings. He knows that his england side let this one slip through. We played some really good cricket through the summer but couldn t put it together over the four days here after two days we were in a good position and did not capitalise and unfortunately with the bat we were not good enough and should have had a few more runs. We know the pitch at the oval gets better as a test match goes on, so
into northern and western scotland. under clearskies, quite into northern and western scotland. under clear skies, quite cool, single figures in some rural spots. where we have the cloud, 10 13. this ridge of high pressure continues to bring fairly dry weather as we head into tomorrow. tomorrow doesn t look too bad to start with. there will be some early sunshine, some cloud in spots of rain across eastern england. that should tend to clear away. there will be some showers pushing into scotland, northern ireland, perhaps north west england in the afternoon. england and wales, the book should stay dry, variable cloud commerce may be sunshine. 16-20 cloud commerce may be sunshine. 16 20 again, below par. tomorrow, better chance of staying dry, could see some bright spells. wednesday looks more unsettled with low pressure pushing in. i think there could be more disruption to play on wednesday. here it is, a rather cloudy picture, outbreaks of rain pushing into northern and weste
a trophy again. france will play either portugal or slovenia in the quarter finals, with those two meeting right now in frankfurt. it s slovenia s first ever appearance in a major championship knockout stage. they are holding poultry goal, it still goalless at frank for portugal frankfurt, goalless between portugal and slovenia in that last 16 match. uefa have opened an investigation intojude bellingham for a gesture the england player made, following his goal in the euro 2024 win over slovakia. the governing body says it is looking into a potential violation regarding the basic rules of decent conduct by bellingham, who was seen making a crotch grabbing gesture towards the slovakian bench after scoring an overhead kick in stoppage time. he says it was an inside joke intended for close friends. defending champion carlos alcaraz has won on his return to wimbledon, making the second round with a straight sets win over mark lajal while the new world number one is tryin